Math with Bad DrawingsCartoon Archive

Perfect Deck

October 24, 2017

An inventor's 'perfectly representative' card deck turns out to be all aces, so every hand is five aces.

Content note: Card game (poker-style).

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017-10-24-perfect-deck/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Transcript

A: "I've invented a magic deck of cards! Every hand you deal is a perfectly representative sample of the whole deck!" B: "Wow! How is that possible?"

A: "Five aces! Read 'em and weep." B: "sigh..."

Topics
Statistics › Sampling & EstimationStatistics › Representative SamplesProbability › Basic Probability
Level
Middle SchoolHigh SchoolAP Statistics
Themes
Jokes & RiddlesVisual Explanations